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Apache HTTP Server: HTTP2: double free and possible RCE on early reset

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7 points·by IncandescentGas·2 miesiące temu·0 comments

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IncandescentGas
·8 dni temu·discuss
> You are perfectly free to keep selling what we've been eating. No one is forcing people to plant the new stuff.

This common sense statement should be true, but is wholly ignorant of the lawsuits farmers deal with from seed suppliers
IncandescentGas
·22 dni temu·discuss
No. They should be available for legit use cases and not available for data scrapers who will use it to facilitate algorithmic housing and employment discrimination. Especially not available for scammers who make mugshot extortion websites.
IncandescentGas
·23 dni temu·discuss
Few who paid their debt to society and moved on are excited about random strangers wanting to do their own petty little performative mock show trials to sit in smug judgement over them. Please stop.
IncandescentGas
·29 dni temu·discuss
I think the point is intent. Sure, no chance of success to build a reactor. But he created a radiation hazard situation all the same.

If a nuclear engineer enabled and instructed him, would there not be liability for the hazard? If ml is going to be an expert instructor for nuclear, hacking, bio hacking, virus research, do the peddlers of the ai product escape ethical or legal responsibility just because "its an app?"
IncandescentGas
·29 dni temu·discuss
> succeeded in making a real reactor

The concern here is not if an amateur attempt to make a reactor, hack a bank, bioengineer a medicine/poison is successful or not. Interactive and instructive access to some forms of knowledge used to come with discretion along side instruction.

Yes, perhaps your swearing at me in this context is a little hysterical
IncandescentGas
·29 dni temu·discuss
Of course. "tried to" being key words in the comment. If he had the help of Claude at the time, how much more dangerous would his bumbling have been?

A real nuclear engineer with the knowledge he needed would also have said "no, don't do that and I won't help you." We are programming the knowledge into the ai agent. Giving ai a little discretion makes sense too.
IncandescentGas
·29 dni temu·discuss
A high school kid tried to build a nuclear reactor as a science project a while back, getting his mom's house designated as a superfund cleanup site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
IncandescentGas
·29 dni temu·discuss
Fastmail reads or analyzes users email to sell ads? Fastmail trains ai models on their user's email messages?

Metadata is more valuable than message content for analysis. GPG solves that how?
IncandescentGas
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Off topic rage bait harassment has top comment? Why?
IncandescentGas
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Is this specific to carplay, or can other bluetooth devices also silently and nefariously hijack your cellular data connection?
IncandescentGas
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
> Justice asks why no one of the 500M people who were searched have complained?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
IncandescentGas
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
> If you actually have serious workshop like restoring cars or building something, rent a warehouse. HOAs have strict rules about chemicals, noise and vans parked on drive way!

I'd never buy a home in a HOA, because I don't need this guy telling me how I can use my garage. City ordinances are already good enough, when it comes to sane noise and parking rules.
IncandescentGas
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
This is not always the case.

Last week, my monitoring system sent me 20k emails in a few hours in response to a server attack.

When those hit my gmail inbox, gmail marked them all as spam. Myself, the user, did not mark them as spam. Gmail did that for me. But their reputation system is behaving as if 20k people marked 20k emails from us as spam.

In response to those 20k emails marked as spam, now our domain sender reputation with gmail is LOW, and our low volume of legitimate email with customers goes to their spam folders.

The gmail client gives me no way to unmark these messages as spam, except to click on each message, one at a time, and dig into a submenu to find the "Not spam" button.
IncandescentGas
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
> This time, the danger isn’t financial engineering. It’s that our financial system has attached itself to the vulnerabilities of our physical world — power grids, water, land, supply chains — and created hazards that markets have no framework to analyze.

Why is it a danger for the value of money to be correlated with major things happening in the real physical world.

If my house burns down, the value of my house changed.

If a bank gambles it's deposits on snake oil like Tesla or Ai Companies, and the market wakes up to the true value of those companies, the worth of that bank rightfully collapses.

Is the author arguing the value of money should be divorced from the physical world?
IncandescentGas
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
How does someone as young as Cavanaugh become so homophobic. I wanted to believe our society was past this.
IncandescentGas
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
The counter-example, in classic MMO terms, is Ultima Online adding non-PVP game instances in response to player feedback. Without the dramatic threat of PVP conflict at most times, UO was less emotionally engaging. The non-PVP players were bored without the emotional excitement (stress, danger, whatever) of ad hoc PVP. The PVP-focused players were bored when all the reputational mechanics became more or less meaningless in a world only occupied by PKers.

The release of Arc Raiders captured that original UO social dynamic perfectly. Players flooded forums with requests to make PVP optional. In that case, the devs knew better than to listen.
IncandescentGas
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Telco infra runs on autopilot?
IncandescentGas
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Has none of the usual expected perks like rental car insurance or damage/theft protection on purchases. Guess purchase protection would be a threat to applecare revenue.
IncandescentGas
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
> if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't).

Most kids did't read the manual? I would rtfm for every game I got my hands on during the car ride home from toysrus or blockbuster. If Mom had several errands to run, I may rtfm a dozen times before I finally got home with the game.
IncandescentGas
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
Identifying the 1% of ai use cases that are useful and refusing to have your attention stolen by the 99% that is mild melting garbage will be the key ai skill for the ai future